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Researchers at Tufts University's Human-Robot Interaction Lab are teaching robots a technique teenagers long ago mastered:How to say no to an order.

After nearly seven decades of cutting hair, Tony Manzi is putting his clippers away. Manzi, known around Cranston, R.I., as "Tony the Barber," is retiring on Thursday.

Chef Marcus Samuelsson has a ritual whenever he travels to a new place — ask the cabdriver, "Where do you eat?" When he did that on a trip to Barbados, he fell in love with a fish sandwich.

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Jim Jarmusch's quietly humorous relationship triptych won the top prize on Saturday. The film about the relationships between siblings, and with their parents, stars Adam Driver, Vicky Krieps and Cate Blanchett.

A medical residency program is the next training step for newly minted doctors, and awaiting "the match" can be tense. For some international students, Trump's travel ban has made that tension worse.

Ohio’s foster care system has seen a significant increase in the number of children in protective custody. It’s one of the ripple effects of the opioid crisis. Last year, for example, a one-year-old was revived with Narcan after overdosing on an unknown opioid in Akron. The child and the child's 9-year-old sibling were removed from the home and placed in the custody of Summit County Children's Services.

The second round of talks in Geneva about Iran's nuclear program takes place as the United States ramps up its military presence in the Middle East and Iran holds large-scale maritime exercises.

Most of the largest civil settlements for police killings were in liberal areas in the year after the Ferguson unrest. Now, lawyers say current protests are hardening political divisions on policing.

Pointing to the pandemic's disproportionate toll on people of color, over 1,200 workers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention call on the agency to declare racism a public health crisis.